"That’s What You Get For Lovin’ Me" – Jason Kenney Style
Are rural Albertans finally waking up to realize that the provincial energy industry’s interests and the public interest are not one and the same? Is it dawning on them that…
The Mound of Sound
A Preview of Something That Could Go Horribly, Horribly Wrong.
Imagine two vehicles racing toward each other at a closing speed of just under 15 kilometres a second. Not an hour, not a minute – a second. Now imagine those…
Monbiot Says "To the Max"
Better late than never, the Guardian’s enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, says it’s time to scrap the “target approach” to fighting climate change. He argues we need to move to a focus…
China, Thanks For the Coronavirus
Now, stop being a dick and give us back those damned hostages.
Mini-Nukes or Those Little Bundles of "Instant Sunshine"
I first heard the term “instant sunshine” on some NATO base in Europe in the mid-70s. It was a slang reference to the bevy of tactical nuclear weapons, bombs or…
Icarus, Meet Boeing
The global aviation industry is now responsible for emitting more greenhouse gases than the total emissions of 135 nations combined. The National Observer has an eye-opening report on the “spectacular…
Is Trump Trying to Grab Syria’s Oil?
In recent remarks Donald Trump has hinted he wants control of Syria’s oil. Coming from a guy who has repeatedly lamented that the US didn’t just take Iraq’s oil a…
Three Rockets Hit US Embassy Compound in Baghdad
The sprawling US embassy compound in Baghdad’s Green Zone has been hit before. What makes today’s attack different is that one of the three rockets hit the embassy cafeteria at…
Obama Praises Canada – "A Country Where Facts Still Matter."
Obama addressed 6,000 young people from across the GTA last week. He urged them to embrace creative skills. “Anything that’s replicable, anything that’s repeatable, some machine is going to do…
The Rise of the "Useless" Class. How to Survive the 21st Century.
I recently came across an article predicting that critical thinking was/is on its way out. Reality is becoming blurred. The news media has long switched from disseminating information to peddling…
America Lost Its Mind after 9/11. Martin Indyk Wants to Restore Sanity to US Foreign Policy
For years Andrew Bacevich has lamented how his country allowed military force or the threat of military force to displace diplomacy as its principal instrument of foreign policy. It’s no…
Nikiforuk Dismembers the LNG Myth
Veteran energy scribe, Andrew Nikiforuk, tackles the lies that our federal and some provincial politicians spin about liquefied natural gas. The Big Lie is that Canadian natural gas will wean…
Stop Clinging to Politicians Who Are Hanging You Out to Dry.
There was an item in the papers about how our federal government will be providing handouts to farmers who need extra fuel to dry out their sodden grain harvests. That’s…
Who Knows? Maybe It Builds Character. But Probably It Just Kills.
No, probably it’s just another lethal toxin or rather a family of persistent toxins. Residents of Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans are most at risk from PFAS or perflouroaylkyl substances…
Is It Time to Mobilize Canada, the Canadian People, and Our Economy?
I know you don’t want to hear this. I know you would rather bury your head in the sand. But you need to know that kind of thinking is about…
Trump’s World Bank Turns Its Back On the World.
It has become an informal protocol that the White House gets to appoint the president of the World Bank while the EU gets to nominate the leadership of the International…
Okay, That’s Not a Good Sign. The Doomsday Clock Gets a Second Hand.
The Doomsday Clock no longer marks our future in minutes. They’re working in seconds now. And, as the venerable Union of Atomic Scientists now sees it, we’re 100 seconds away…
Do They Really Have to Ask? Big Fossil’s "Dine and Dash"
Alberta wants to know how it got so screwed by abandoned oil and gas wells. 3,406 as of today and that may just be the tip of Alberta’s hydrocarbon iceberg.…
They’re Shittier Than We Imagined. What About Us?
Since the election of DJ Trump to the presidency most of us have seen the American people in a different light. The US is no longer the land of Ozzie…